Beaches Energy Services, FL
Beaches Energy Services's outage record
Beaches Energy Services customers in Florida rarely lose power at all: 0.4 interruptions last year, adding up to just 20 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 72% less outage time than the Florida state average of 70 minutes a year.
How long a single Beaches Energy Services outage runs
A single outage here averages 45 minutes. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do Beaches Energy Services customers need a generator
Most Beaches Energy Services customers keep power almost all year. Serving 36,454 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
Beaches Energy Services filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Florida territory, serving 36,454 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Florida is covered too: see Florida's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.